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Yuri Liapkin scored one each Rookie Paul Marshall and Scott Vanderburgh scored for Fincups in second place in the Emms Division Savtsillo beat starting goalie Al Jensen with wrist shot from the slot to open the scor ing at 1380f the first period Marshall membej of the Don Mills team that competed in the world midget champion ship last spring tipped in defenceman Willie Hubers pass to tie the score at 1751 Vanderburgh put the Fincups in the lead for the only time 12 seconds into the second period after interce ting pass at the Moscow blue inc Liapkins screened shot 10 seconds after Hamiltons Al 89 cord incurred crosschecking penalty tied the score at 22 Savtsillo Smaginon power pla and Krutov looked after the irdvperiod scoring Both Hamilton goalies Jen sen and Rick Wamsley who took over in the third period were outstanding as the Selects outshot the losers 3127 Each team received nine minor penalties The Selects play Regina Pats of the Western Canada Hockey League in Regina on Friday Barcelona of Spain qualifies for soccer By THE CANADIAN PRESS Barcelona of Spain qualified for the quarterfinal round of the UEFA Cup soccer tourna ment Wednesday by beating 1p swich Town of England on penalty kicks after 33 stand off fol owing the completion of homeandaway legs ipswich beat Barcelona in England 30 two weeks ago so when Barcelona led 30 in Wed nesdays game at the end of regulation time the teams went into 30minute overtime When that failed to settle the is sue the teams booted series of penalty kicks and Barcelona scored three while the English team replied with one Dutch centreforward John Cruyff scored twice in the 20th and 47th minute to lead Barce lona to victory Seven other teams moved in the quarterfinalsGrasshop pers Zurich of Switzereriand Eintracht Frankfurt of West Germany PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands Magdeburg and Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany Bastia of France and Aston Villa of the English League At Munich Eintracht Frank furt scored two late goals to beat Bayern Munich 21 and ad vance 61 on aggregate Defenseman Shelton Kannegiesscr of the Vancouver anucks is bumped against the boards by sailing left wing Bobby Simpson 22 of the Atlanta Flames in first period of their Na tional Hockey League match at Atlanta mni Wednesday AI llltlttt Capitals snop streak by beating Cleveland By THE CANADIAN PRESS Robert Picard had good cause to call home Wednesday night After all the rookie Washing ton defenceman had scored his first National Hockey League goal But uppermost in the Montreal natives mind was the feat accomplished by the Capi tals We won 53 and it feels real good an elated Picard told his mother after the Capitals had posted their first victory in 21 startsa 541 verdict over Cleve land Barons Yeah and scored goal the myearold added almost as an afterthought During the victory drought the Capitals lost 15 times in cluding the last four in row and tied five Their last pre vious win had come Oct 26 when they downed Atlanta Flames 62 Picard the Capitals No pick in this years amateur draft and the third selection overall was not the only player to get his initial Nlli goal Ken Kuzyk and Rick Shin ske both accomplished the feat in losing effort for the Barons Elsewhere Philadelphia Fly ers and New York Rangers tied 33 New York islanders blanked Chicago Black Hawks 40 Vancouver Canucks and At MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Golden Bear GOLF CLUBS An eleven pco sot sure to be appreciatgd summer after summer 14925 IIIIIEMII 68 Dunlop St 7263200 Open nightly until oclock until Christmas This Christmas be different Give the Gift of Health Take advantage of this SPECIAL OFFER Imagine one full year 45 thtod tinto only Drop in now or phone 1312281 BARRIE FITNESS CLUB 65 Collier St laiita played to 22 draw and Toronto Maple Leafs lumped Minnesota North Stars tril WIN AWFLI 1011 This Victory felt awful good said Washington coach Tom hitVie with £1 somewhat glazed look But that doesnt make anything better Unless youve been down the road with 30 hockey players like this you just dont know he added quietly just didnt think hockey could do this to human being You just get numb Despite the win the apitiils still possess the leagues worst record They are 32 points he hind firstplace Montreal ana dicns in the Norris Divisit and 10 back of their nearest rivals OXC Movies OXC Clothing Free Coffee Free Donuts OPEN HOUSE SPECIAL XC Ski Sweater Rog 2495 SPECIALI $9 99 lst 100 only Many other specials fourthplace Detroit Red Wings OXC Ski waxdemonstration Ladies must be accompanied by husband boyfriend etc lst 50 ladies will receive gift many prizes to be drawn for the ladies Sun Dec 11 Thurs Dec 830 pm Barrie Arena Barrie Colts Trovelwoys At baseball meetings the oxamlnor Thursday Doc 1077 17 Braves sell Messersmith HONOLULU AP Baseball as well as politics make strange bedfellows Andy Messersmith the pitcher who smashed baseballs lifetime hold on players contract then spurned rich offer from New York Yankees has been sold to the World Series champions for onetenth of what he would have cost them three years ago Messersmith 32 was sold Wednesday by Atlanta Braves to the Yankees for $100000 pending the pitchers approval Atlan ta owner Ted Turner said however the approval was mere formality And before the Messersmith bombshell was dropped at base bails winter meeting Baltimore Orioles shattered the fiveday trade calm with two deals involving nine layers Before the Orioles business with Montreal Expos and Seattle Mariners only five trades involving 11 players had transpired since baseball brass descended on Oahu last Friday Baltimore acquired pitchers Dan Stanhouse and Joe Kerri gan plus outfielder Gary Roenicke from the Expos for veteran lefthander Rudy May righthanded reliever Randy Miller and minor league righthander Bryan Smith Smith was shifted from Rochester to Denver Baltimore general manager Hank Peters then disclosed he had sent pitcher Mike Parrott to the Mariners for outfielder Carlos Lopez and pitcher Tommy Moore The three transactions Messersmith to the Yankees and the BaitimoreMontrealSeattle business all came to light within 10 minutes Before that baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn was having to defend the meetings as newsworthy The most intriguing transaction had to be the Messersmith sale The righthander who began his major league career with California Angels in 1968 revolutionized player contracts with the help of an arbitrator and two federal court decisions in 1975 unable to reach financial agreement with Los Angeles Dodgers Messersmith played with no contract He claimed it was his option year and that at the end of the season he would become free agent The case went to arbitration and the pit cher won Two federal courts upheld the arbitrator Niekro brothers are good fielders NEW YORK AP The Niekro brothersPhil of At lanta Braves and Joe of Hous ton Astrosvcertainly did not have perfect pitching marks during the 1977 major league baseball season but as in fieldcrs their records were un blemished Phii who won 16 games and lost 20 the most setbacks in the National league also was the fielding leader among pitchers with 1000 percentage Al though 74 Ni pitchers did not make an error during the year Phil was acclaimed the leader Wednesda the most aces71 but he had only 42 chances fewest errors in season 95 XCountry pedopo regularly 14610 is now only 1495 Our Downhill Pooling regularly priced at 14980 is now only 13995 We dso curry dl accessories and on open Set and Son ody 10 eni to VALLEY SPORTS AT MOISESIIOE VALLEY from lOam pm in official statistics released because he handled Joe who compiled 138 record was among the group with spotless fielding marks Cincinnati Reds tied the NL record for the highest fielding percentage 984 and equalled the major league record for It was the start of the freeagent frenzy the era of longterm multimiliion dollar contracts for players Messersmith put himself on the open market and in cocktail lounge in Tampa Fla 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